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A Lee Dynasty in Singapore After All?

Questions swirl over unexpected swerves in succession process

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John Berthelsen
May 04, 2021
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When Singapore’s new cabinet meets in mid-May, critics fear a new scenario will be in place, one that reverses a process that Lee Kuan Yew, the country’s modern patriarch, initiated in 1990. That was to prepare the island nation for a future without the Lee family in charge.

Lee Hsien Loong, the 69-year-old prime minister and Kuan Yew’s son, in mid-Apri…

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